And 2013 and 2011 and 1998. There's always been haters but driving that hate underground so that it festers achieves nothing.

The other day without a semblance of irony I saw some American moron on Twitter share a snippet from American History X as if it was "The Truth" (TM) without realising that movie was entirely about his journey away from Neo-Nazism and to warn against hate.

Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

Being upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

From what I gather the university did not allow the march. It was ruled an unlawful assembly. It was set up cause these assholes want as much media attention as possible before todays hate march. The hate subs on reddit are already gathering which businesses to attack because they are putting up diversity and tolerance signs.

This is straight up unacceptable in america, much less on a college campus

Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 08-12-2017 at 12:56 PM.

"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

Wow OG ... if they're dumb enough to be pre-announcing what crimes they're going to commit then the Police should ensure they have enough cameras and officers to ensure any law breakers are punished severely.

Anyone who attacks people or businesses should with this hatred should be sent down for a very long time.

Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

Being upset is understandable, but be upset at yourself for poor planning, not at the world by acting like a spoiled bitch during an interview.

The threats alone should be enough to start acting on but these assholes hide behind twisting the 1st amendment and trying to be coy. Nothing more than bullies trying to scare people into not speaking up. Can't have rainbow flags spanning the streets and covering windows messing with their media whoring.

"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

In a way it's kind of a shame because I think there's nothing wrong with keeping that statue, not in that state. Lee led the Confederate army and he'd been a slaveholder himself but he was genuinely not fighting for slavery. He fought for Virginia and was a perfectly respectable icon of a Virginian from a historical perspective.

Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

In a way it's kind of a shame because I think there's nothing wrong with keeping that statue, not in that state. Lee led the Confederate army and he'd been a slaveholder himself but he was genuinely not fighting for slavery. He fought for Virginia and was a perfectly respectable icon of a Virginian from a historical perspective.

"Unless you are Native American, the first ships that came to Jamestown VA in 1607, and since that time many people have come to our country to unite us; our diversity, that mosaic tile of immigrants is what makes us so special. And we will not let anybody come here and destroy it."
"So, please, go home. And never come back. And take your hatred and take your bigotry. There is no place."
"And if I could give you a piece of advice, use your time an energy to help people."

-Gov. Terry McAuliffe

and that is how you act presidential.

Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 08-13-2017 at 02:09 AM.

"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

I stopped reading your article after it started on his strategic prowess right at the beginning. He wasn't anywhere near as good a strategist as he was a tactician but the idiots criticizing him there always overlook the fact that he repeatedly made clear, before and during the war, that the South was screwed in that kind of war, that it couldn't match the industrial and financial muscle of the Union. He didn't HAVE better options. Both his offensives failed but he didn't have any choice but to try them in an attempt to seize DC or scare them into talking things out. He was a general in the field, not a part of either the Confederate legislature nor its War Office. He didn't get to dictate policy and he wouldn't have tried, it would have gone against the code of conduct he considered proper for a serving officer.
He was a slaveholder. He ran large estate and he punished slaves on it. But he was also very clear, again before and during the war as well as after, that slavery wasn't worth secession or the war that followed. I didn't say boo about his attitudes on race relations, but you're not going to find better attitudes among any other significant figures from that period or later, in the South or in the North.

Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"

Btw it turns out that the counter-protesters were obstructing traffic and he was late for work/had to go to school/having a heart attack/was trying to get his wife, who was in labor to the hospital. The leftists attacked him and made him fear for his life.

“Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
— Bill Gates

Good on the university for allowing the march. Let the bigots march and counter their hatred with rationality.

Courts have already, and quite rationally, ruled that the first amendment doesn't protect incitement to violence. So, I am quite surprised why you think the university made the right decision allowing it.

Greece shows us that there is a kind of politician worse than the ones that break their election promises; the ones that keep their election promises.

In a way it's kind of a shame because I think there's nothing wrong with keeping that statue, not in that state. Lee led the Confederate army and he'd been a slaveholder himself but he was genuinely not fighting for slavery. He fought for Virginia and was a perfectly respectable icon of a Virginian from a historical perspective.

The statue on the other hand seems to be a part of a move in the first half of the 20th century to rehabilitate the Confederacy, so demands to remove it aren't entirely unreasonable either. If you never have seen it; watch Gone with the wind. Then try to imagine if that movie could have been made today. I think the answer would be a resounding NO.

The lie of the South as a victim having lost a genteel better way of life, due to chivalry standing no chance against the crushing mechanic force of the North is, when you think of it, an extremely ugly one. Lee may have been 'just another patriot', but he was so for a Patria that existed in order to keep large numbers of people in sub-human status.

Greece shows us that there is a kind of politician worse than the ones that break their election promises; the ones that keep their election promises.